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Tell me the names you wouldn't be brave enough to use
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spice3 · 22/10/2019 16:39
Always my favourite baby name lists.
The names I love but are too out there (even for me who's child has an unranked name) to use:
Boys:
Nemo
Zeus
Rubeus
Sherlock
Tokyo
Woody
Girls:
Bambi
Dolly
Birdie
Baby
Queenie
Pepper
Major guilty pleasure names 
my DP barely let me finish the sentence when suggesting these ones although I wouldn't have been brave enough to use them anyway 😂
Flo84 · 22/10/2019 16:48
I love the name Woody. When we were choosing makes we struggled because my other half wanted traditional whereas I wanted something a bit quirky. I like River, Jacobi and Zachaeus.
Spied · 22/10/2019 16:51
I really love Lolita.
Browniee · 22/10/2019 16:52
Ophelia! But if I have another girl I’m going to push for it 😂 even as a middle name would feel like a victory.
I also like Jasper for a boy but DP is very much in the “top 5” names in terms of taste so anything vaguely unique and he panics!
bridgetreilly · 22/10/2019 19:09
Aethelflaed.
LenoVintura · 22/10/2019 19:12
I know a Dolly, a River and a Woody!
scrivette · 22/10/2019 19:20
Love these threads as DD's name often appears once!
Seraphina
Persephone
Inego
These were all favourites of mine for my last child and people thought they were very 'brave'. I still love them.
Chocolateandcarbs · 22/10/2019 19:22
Roman - I loved it, husband did not!
LaLoose · 22/10/2019 19:22
Inego? It's Inigo.
NavyBerry · 22/10/2019 19:32
Loveday
Iliada · 22/10/2019 19:44
It’s not Inego or Inigo, it’s actually Íñigo. 
nearlyfinished1moreyear · 22/10/2019 19:51
I love Elvis also Dolly and Phoenix 
Naomimi · 22/10/2019 19:53
I love Pepper!
Oflawrence · 22/10/2019 19:56
I love Pepper too!
SpinySue · 22/10/2019 19:58
Persephone and Torquil - we're not posh enough.
Loic - we're not French enough (I really love the sound of this name Low-ick in my accent Loo-week in a French one)
Ike - because its the baby from South Park and thats where I got I from and that's why I like it!
Krisskrosskiss · 22/10/2019 20:08
Olympia
Iolanthe
Circe
Artemisia
Venitia
Tristesse
Lenore
Astrae
Halcyone
Phaedra
Lux
Indigo
Echo
Hero
Lorelei
Ondine
Orpheus
Isambard
Ichabod
Vivian
Florian
Hilary
Peregrine
Alaric
Aloysius
Garnett
Phoebus
Apollo
St John
Sparklypurpleunicornsaremyfav · 22/10/2019 20:10
I know a 2 year old dolly!
Namechangeymcnamechange11 · 22/10/2019 20:11
Abraham
Atticus
Love them both though.
stitchwitch85 · 22/10/2019 20:15
Meredith, for boy or girl. I just love that name!
MsMustDoBetter · 22/10/2019 20:19
I'm pretty vanilla, but...
Bluebell
Cordelia
Hector
Taliesin
VictoriaSpongeBob · 22/10/2019 20:36
Isadora for a girl
Amos for a boy
RickOShay · 22/10/2019 20:41
Ooh there are a few
Valentina
Tatiana
Solange
Ines
Xavier
Fabian
Otis
Raphael
Dh liked Robert and Olivia
The dc are not called any of these names!
NameChangedNoImagination · 22/10/2019 21:28
KrissKross you have AWESOME taste in names. That reads like my name list and my daughter's name is on there.
Love Isambard beyond reason!
Siablue · 22/10/2019 21:38
Boudicca- you would have to be brave to carry it off.
Most of my girls list was not approved Persephone was on there.
Siablue · 22/10/2019 21:39
I also like Venita which is too much like Vianetta (which would also be a good name if it wasn’t and ice cream).
M0reGinPlease · 22/10/2019 21:43
Cassidy
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